Arizona Friends of Chamber Music kicks off a three-week run of virtual concerts beginning Saturday, Nov. 7, with the string trio of Tim Kantor, Michelle Abraham and Nicholas Mariscal.
The trio will pay homage to Beethoven in a concert that includes Haydn's String Trio in E flat Major and Duo for Violin and Cello by the young New York Baroque-style composer Jessie Montgomery.
The friends, which announced in mid-August that they were taking their 2020-21 season online in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, will stream the concert beginning at 5:45 p.m. Saturday.
Admission is free to see the Tucson-based trio — violinists Kantor, who teaches at the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music, and Abraham, Tucson Symphony Orchestra's associate concertmaster, and cellist Mariscal, who was recently named assistant principal cello of the Milwaukee Symphony.
The concert will stream on Arizona Friends website, arizonachambermusic.org
• The Tucson husband-and-wife duo of pianist Alexander Tentser and violinist Anna Gendler will pick up on the Beethoven theme with the composer's Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major when they share the Arizona Friends virtual stage at 4:45 p.m. Nov. 14. Also on the program: William Grant Still's spiritual “Here's One,” Ravel's “Blues” from the Sonata for Violin and Piano, and Brahms's Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major.
Admission is free, but donations can be made at arizonachambermusic.org
• Double bass player joins pianist Kelly Lin at 5 p.m. Nov. 21 for a recital that includes several works for double bass penned by Foley. The pair also will perform Bach's Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor.
Foley, making his Tucson debut, writes music and has penned a children's book. The Georgia native and Curtis-trained musician also does online coaching and in 2014 won the prestigious Sphinx Competition followed up four years later with the equally prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2018.
Tickets are $15, $5 for students at arizonachambermusic.org
